Weekender: Age Of Sigmar Campaign Impressions & A Lifetime Wet Palette?
September 23, 2017 by thisisazrael
It's time to get stuck into the mix for The Weekender today. We've got loads of awesomeness from the worlds of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and more so grab a beverage and join us.
Weekender Podcast Download
Without further ado, let's dive in...
Wild West Exodus 2nd Edition Week
Watch out for the Wild West Exodus 2nd Edition Week, beginning October 2nd, 2017, discussing the awesome factions, gameplay, and more.
Age Of Sigmar: Season Of War - Firestorm
Make sure to go and check out our first impressions of the new Firestorm Campaign that has been put together by Games Workshop for Age Of Sigmar.
You can check out our article on it HERE and let us know what you think of this new idea for campaign gaming in the Mortal Realms.
Boot Camps & Hobby Gods
We also have some goodies to give away from our Boot Camp last week. You can comment on the Live Blogs from Friday, Saturday and Sunday and you might win yourself a cool Wolsung Starter Bundle.
In the spirit of awesome prizes, we also have a Hobby God to announce as we give Janus1004 the accolade for his Early Roman Regiment.
News
It's time to find out what's been happening in the world...
- Para Bellum Show Conquest Renders - Check out the renders for the Brute & Archer Drones for the Spire
- SAGA 2nd Edition - Find out what details we know at the moment on the new edition of SAGA
- Firefly: Brigands & Browncoats - A new pre-order pops up with some excellent goodies to enhance your game
Have any of these news pieces caught your attention?
Saratoga Article Series Interview
We sit down to talk about the Saratoga Campaign article series with Oriskany which has been going for the past few weeks.
You can check out Part One and Part Two of the article series and get stuck into the comments as we explore more of the American Revolution.
Kickstarters
It's time for fundraisers...
- Shieldmaidens & Dragonbreds - Take a look at these new plastic kits from Shieldwolf Miniatures
- Everlasting Wet Palette - Is this worth your time as a nice bit of shiny hobby bling?
Let us know your thoughts and get commenting below...
Have a great weekend!
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I’ve never been first…what am I supposed to say here?
FUR5T M*****F*****S!!!! I believe is the traditional internet ejaculation in this circumstance… 😉
A Quick Happy 80th birthday to the Hobbit for yesterday
Does that take it out of Copyright yet?
Not in the UK. Jan 1st 2044 is the date that The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings become out of copyright. They’ll still be trademarked terms, though.
I am probably completely wrong but isn’t it the date of the death of the author plus 75 years?
Close :). It’s the first January first that occurs from 70 years after the death of the author.
Although, as a whole bunch of IPs created in the 20th century and which make some big corporations a lot of money are due to enter the public domain in the coming decades, I wouldn’t be surprised to see some changes to copyright law which protects their ownership of them.
Then there’s the whole issue of when the IP has been ‘transferred’, such as J.M.Barrie’s Peter Pan and G.O.S.H. In that case it’s in perpetuity in the UK, another few years in the US but already open in most of the rest of the world.
GOSH don’t have the copyright over Peter Pan, that’s long since expired. What they have is a right to royalties. They can’t stop anyone from using it nor dictate how it’s used.
Don’t forget that the copyright of the movies and novels are different beasts too.
So while we may see the end for the novels we won’t have them end for the movies.
Given that they extended the copyright to a silly 70+ after creator death I’m pretty sure they’d find a way to add another 100+ years. Somehow.
I mean … imagine them having to have an original thought.
Dud Warren’s fear of Polar Bears develop after a bad experience with a Foxs Glacier Mint?
No, just really f***ing scary! 😉
He looks like someone has nicked his bottle of Cresta
I have been mocked for my fear of bears (which has at times been called irrational). It’s good to know I am not alone. Also, don’t watch the revnant, skip the first 10 minutes of 13 monkeys.
Fun fact: bears are the only mammal that can laugh and swallow at the same time, this is due to their child sized gullet.
Laughing and eating eh?
Maybe i should be a bear!!! 🙂
The number one threat to America? Bears! All animals have souls, except for bears, which are godless killing machines.
http://www.tshirtbordello.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/600x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/b/e/bears-threat-america-lg.gif
Have to find @warzan a werepolarbear mini …
There is nothing irrational about a fear of bears – they are some of the most dangerous terrestrial predators on Earth, especially the larger breeds such as Grizzlies and Polar Bears. When a predatory animal is so large that we fit neatly into its prey range, is known for its opportunistic hunting habits, and is easily strong enough to literally tear your head from your shoulders or your entire body in half, then fear is not only a reasonable reaction, but an eminently sensible one. I am not suggesting that bears should be culled or anything excessive like that, but… Read more »
My family comes from northwest Montana and Alaska, we’ve grown up with bears since God knows when (blacks, browns, and grizzlies). We don’t “fear” them … but make no mistake, we have a healthy respect for them. I remember I was eight years old when we were visiting my grandma in the Cabinet Range of the Rockies, and grandma asked if she should make huckleberry pie for dessert that night. Everyone said yes, so my dad and grandfather said they’d go out and get huckleberries. I thought they were going to the corner store, but they started loading up .44s,… Read more »
Ah, @warzan , with your Battle of New Orleans reference . . . you’re only off by one war and 40 years. We’re making progress! 😀 Actually, I can’t talk any trash . . . I grossly misquoted the size of Burgoyne’s wager. The wager was £10, not £20,000 . . . a big difference. 😐 I was able to fix it in time for the article but not the interview. No worries. Just for you, Warren, I’ll see if I have any little plastic toy alligators around and set up some unconventional Louisiana artillery tabletop photos for you. 😀
“you’re only off by one war and 40 years”
My record for historical butchery continues completely intact in this episode! 😉
Not at all, sir, you legitimately are getting better. 😀 Actually, lots of people over here get the Revolution and War of 1812 mixed up, specifically a lot of Americans somehow think our national anthem comes from the Revolution … it’s from the barrage of Ft. McHenry in the War of 1812. The two wars are similar in a lot of ways … the British are the “bad guys” and the rather clueless Americans lose a string of embarrassing battles … and in the end only survive because the British have more important things to do … beating up on… Read more »
there never is anything more important than beating up the French. 😉
Even when we ally with France, the British still refer to the enemy as French. (Lord Raglan in the Crimea).
Hey, nothing against the French, but they were a powerful nation and a big threat to Britain and her allies in those days. When you’re on top, people want to take shots at you. Lord knows people were trying to “take the wind out of the sails” of Spain in the 1400-1500s, France in the 1600-1700s, and Great Britain in the 1800s and early 1900s. @damon – well, that war didn’t end too well for Lord Raglan. And in the 1850s Napoleon was only 40 years ago so I guess in “living memory.” I suppose it’s tough to break 500… Read more »
As a Brit myself, I must admit that historically the British have been capable of being total gits, especially when it comes to fighting wars with scant legitimate justification, my favourite historical example being the infamous War of Jenkin’s Ear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Jenkins%27_Ear
God, how many wars between the English and the Spanish during the late 1500s, 1600s, and early 1700s? It’s almost a constant state of low-intensity trade war in the Caribbean, with occasional outbreaks of peace and regular updates / refreshes of why they were fighting (it was really always over trade, shipping lanes, and colonies, but they always needed new justifications). “What are we fighting over this time?” “Who knows? Some guy’s ear? Good enough for me.” For the Americans, we have the Revolutions which I feel is justified, and 1812 (which is infamous for being fought over “impressment” –… Read more »
At least it was not just 1£
Gotta admit though, £20,000 sounds more impressive. I think I was confusing it with the £20,000 Benedict Arnold was supposed to be paid for selling West Point in 1780.
is that where they get the name gator aid from lol?
Possibly. 😀
It’s the Weekend!!
We’re about to attempt a ‘light’ AoS campaign at club soon:. Many will use the same models they used for a KoW campaign. Me, I’ll be dusting off my Beastmen for the first GW action I’ve bothered with for a few years… Something about the ‘light’ AoS approach that appeals.
Lloyd just do it
The idea to get @warzan to read book passages reminds me of working for a certain high street stationers in my youth… they introduced walkitalkis so shop floor could talk to warehouse but we used to read the must off colour or explicit passages we could find from the “black lace” set of books and their fellows… passed the time
#lloyditup
@oriskany I thought the ECW was pike and shot not Black powder 😉
Uhh … what?
The tactics in “Pike and Shoot” can be seen as different/a pre-cursor to “Black Powder” .
ECW/TYW more or less see the development from the Tercios with shoot unit as an auxiliary to the musket/rifle centric tactics
I dunno, everyone. There are plenty of early firearms in the ECW, they’re one of the primary weapons, and they use black powder. This is like people who say Romans aren’t “Ancients,” they’re “Classical” … or Greeks aren’t Ancient they’re “Hellenic” or Seven Years War Prussians aren’t Black Powder, they’re “Age of Enlightenment.” Units as late as the Battle of Second Manassas in 1862 were using pikes. Does that make ACW “Pike and Shotte” as well? Last recorded battlefield kill with a longbow was in 1942. Does that make World War II “Medieval” Era? It doesn’t really matter to me… Read more »
awwh Jim you always make me smile, that has got to be one of the best descriptions for era classification ever.
You should send a copy to the Wargames Research Group for their future publications 🙂
@oriskany at least over here the wargaming period of pike and shot or “pike and shotte” is the period in which pike blocks were part of the standard army formations before they were replaced almost totally by firearms. Yes there are overlaps but those manly come in the SYW and the Great Northern War.
😀 😀 😀 😀
More about SAGA The announcement of Saga’s new edition has drawn interest from lots of players, and that interest has developed into a deluge of questions. You’ll find answers to the most frequent ones below, direct from Saga’s author – Alex Buchel. Saga is getting a second edition. Why? The new edition of Saga arose from our desire to improve the game and make it more accessible. I’ve always thought that designing a miniatures game was more of a job for a tinker than an artist. Unlike a work of art, where at some point the artist has to say… Read more »
That’s some mighty fine translating, @torros 😉
Thanks very much. I m a natural at linguistics with English to English being my specialty
Don’t be modest. Claim credit for translating it from French lol
http://www.studio-tomahawk.com/saga-new-edition-interview-alex-buchel/
Thanks @torros really informative!
Well up for Lloyd’s hot liquid dribbling on the tabletop!
Note to team, I am no desire to see Lloydy or anyone else’s ‘lava’ spilling out over the table…hot black cement, hooping great loops of it…
Oh god…
TURN – an excellent series.
Osmosis – without it there would be no plantlife and therefore no life on this planet – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmosis
Oriskany: the US Navy named ships after the battle – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oriskany_(CV-34)
Indeed, @dothonion – we discuss this at moderate length in the article thread, as linked below: http://www.beastsofwar.com/historical/saratoga-campaign-american-revolution-storm-west/#comment-403776 Copied below for convenience: Yes, there’s the Battle of Oriskany, the US Navy aircraft carrier that would be named after the battle (CV-34, briefly mentioned in the movie “Top Gun”), fought extensively in Korea and Vietnam, and even sci-fi starships named after the battle / carrier (Star Trek, for example, has two USS Oriskany ships, NCC 1020 and NCC 1733 – same class as Enterprise). The US Navy Oriskany is semi famous here in Florida because she was finally sunk off our state’s… Read more »
I’d like to know what @elromanozo thinks about the everlasting water palette
Damn you and your Kickstarter wares… I have just backed the wet pallette
I was drinking my morning coffee listening to the show and got a small chock when you started talking about my Romans! Feels great that you liked them and be certain that I am super proud to have won this prize. Now I just need to finish some more of them and get going on the Carthaginians that they gonna fight… 🙂 Hopefully there will even be some elephants from Victrix later on to show off, who knows.
Congrats mate, well earned, lovely looking unit.
Those Romans are badass to be sure, @janus1004 – I always like it when a historical entry wins a prize.
Well deserved award
http://justcuteanimals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/baby-polar-bear-snow-cute-animals-pictures-pics.jpg
Damn that didn’t work… one day I will learn and successfully post a picture on a forum!
Sadly you can’t insert pics in the Weekender forums
I’m guessing warren isn’t a monty python fan – how could he not name one of them “Biggus Dickus”?
What have the romans ever done for us I ask you.
Ooo,, Ive spotted aome fabled realms mugs! Cant wait fir that game!! Floating islands will always be a winner for me, I’d be very interested to see how he would go about this. Those romans that won the hobby god bag are awesome, a massive well done on those and an even bigger one fir winning the bag. Ive just finished Spartacus, no wild animals in it but its well worth a watch. Id love to do a themed force around this era to re-create these skimishes and bigger battles. With a new SAGA edition on the way maybe its… Read more »
Loved how @warzan gladiator facts were all wrong and his story went no where lol and yet it managed to get to the gutter when knobs were brought into the topic….lol
Hem hmmm
Every fact was correct just not in the right order or attributed to the right historical figures
But it was damned close this time! 😉
I keep telling you, man . . . you ARE getting better.
Shit, you know 100 time more about gladiators than I do.
Can’t wait for Lloyd to spurt his dripping gobbets of hot hobby lava all over the show! Lloydy, get your ass in gear and show us how its done!
Mierce does a bunch of 3 legged creatures, the Abhorrents
http://zedmeister.co.uk/dlpc2/rewards/Abhorrents.jpg
Gladiators??? Need to do some updates for ARENA REX ;D Seems like a fun Gladiator game.
It is! I’m currently working on my second faction.
My normal wet palette is a seal-able tupperware box, kitchen roll and greaseproof paper. I might back this new wet palette – rule of cool!
@oriskany You should check out the new Napoleonics skirmish game FORAGER, it’s on Kickstarter now for the physical rulebook. It seems quiet neat, and with some interesting characterful mechanics. Easily converted to ACW, and I think they will make expansions for it!
I’m looking forward to reading the article series!
Thanks, @while . 🙂 The first two parts of the series are already up (links are in the video text above) – covering the overall British plan, opening moves, fall of Fort Ticonderoga, delaying action at the Battle of Hubbardton (which we do in its entirety in 20mm Battlesystem) and the Siege of Fort Stanwix / Battle of Oriskany (also done in 20mm).
I’ll definitely check out that KS, thanks for the heads up! 🙂